Last week GM passed along the news he heard at the CAG meeting last week: that the Neam’s Market building (aka the Marvelous Market building) was in the process of being sold. He speculated that the likely purchaser would be a bank, namely because it seems like banks are willing to pay unreasonable sums to acquire highly visible buildings like this.
Well friend of GM, Carol Joynt, reached out to George Neam-whose family has owned the property for generations-and asked whether a bank was a likely tenant. “That’s not on my radar screen” was the answer.
That’s somewhat nebulous, but hopefully it nonetheless means no bank.
GM did hear a completely unverified rumor that a restauranteur was considering opening a fish market there. If a Black Salt-style market-slash-restaurant opened there, it would be a nice addition (and would go some way towards replacing Canons). But GM is still holding out hope for a general market, like Glenn’s Garden Market in Dupont or Zucker Farms on 14th.
But a bank would be a worse case scenario and it’s good to hear that it may not come to that.
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
Please, please, no more banks. We’ve got more than enough. I went to the bank the other day to withdraw from the ATM, and when the cash drawer opened, there was another bank inside. Dear God, no more banks, please.